1 00:00:00,01 --> 00:00:05,69 The meeting of the meeting to order ask for 2 00:00:05,70 --> 00:00:12,61 a roll call Winkler Wilson Sweeney here bone 3 00:00:13,98 --> 00:00:20,67 Messner Pereira No sorry Dougherty I remember who's going to get there find 4 00:00:20,76 --> 00:00:27,75 anything about Corum So first order of business is the 5 00:00:27,76 --> 00:00:33,48 Consent Calendar matters listed under the Consent Calendar considered to be routine 6 00:00:33,49 --> 00:00:37,91 by the May board it will be enacted upon by one motion unless 7 00:00:37,92 --> 00:00:41,65 a specific request for review is made by a board member or 8 00:00:41,66 --> 00:00:46,22 a member of the public the Consent Calendar will not be read they will depart 9 00:00:46,68 --> 00:00:52,74 discussion of these items in this poll for disc is anyone from the public have any 10 00:00:52,75 --> 00:00:59,68 copy and do any of the board 11 00:00:59,69 --> 00:01:06,29 members have so I move to 12 00:01:07,06 --> 00:01:08,99 approve the Consent Calendar is submitted 13 00:01:12,15 --> 00:01:15,07 a favor say I. Post 14 00:01:20,27 --> 00:01:25,37 So next time the agenda is the oral written communication this time as I had people 15 00:01:25,38 --> 00:01:32,23 to address the board or to submit indications concerning matters on this board 16 00:01:32,24 --> 00:01:36,66 members may respond to statements but any request that requires board action will 17 00:01:36,67 --> 00:01:41,75 be for to staff or review reasonable time limits may be imposed on both time 18 00:01:42,65 --> 00:01:48,34 allocated for this item and on the time committed to each individual speaker such 19 00:01:48,35 --> 00:01:53,57 time allotment or portion thereof shall not be transferred to other speakers Does 20 00:01:53,62 --> 00:01:56,97 anyone in the public wish to speak at this 21 00:02:02,05 --> 00:02:06,54 next item on the agenda is present draft fiscal year twenty eight thousand nine 22 00:02:06,55 --> 00:02:13,47 hundred budget and provide direction as appropriate Thank 23 00:02:13,48 --> 00:02:20,37 you Mr Chair. Just to introduce the I don't we will be discussing the draft 24 00:02:20,38 --> 00:02:23,10 fiscal year eighteen nineteen budget for H.W. 25 00:02:23,11 --> 00:02:29,91 And and I hit the wrong. Just for 26 00:02:29,92 --> 00:02:34,86 board members. Information as far as some of the timing will be presented in the 27 00:02:34,87 --> 00:02:41,10 draft budget the evening the item is then scheduled to go to the executive advisory 28 00:02:41,11 --> 00:02:45,80 committee they'll be holding their meeting on April nineteenth and they will then 29 00:02:45,81 --> 00:02:52,07 review and then make any recommendations. Back to the board which will then be 30 00:02:52,08 --> 00:02:56,05 incorporated with any direction that we received tonight so that we can finalize 31 00:02:56,71 --> 00:03:00,31 the budget for presentation at the May tenth meeting and then of course the fiscal 32 00:03:00,32 --> 00:03:06,32 year begins on July first our general approach has been somewhat to the ones that 33 00:03:06,33 --> 00:03:10,16 we've taken in years past we use the fiscal year seventeen eighteen budget as 34 00:03:10,17 --> 00:03:15,49 a base document for many of our development purposes we are continuing to work 35 00:03:15,50 --> 00:03:20,67 internally to identify where cost savings could be achieved and trying to find ways 36 00:03:20,68 --> 00:03:26,14 in our ever tightening market to optimize some of the salvageable material and to 37 00:03:26,15 --> 00:03:31,75 of course to identify and evaluate necessary budgetary actions to ensure 38 00:03:31,76 --> 00:03:35,48 a stable level of funding and expenditures for full continuations of services and 39 00:03:35,49 --> 00:03:40,76 programs that are provided by each study M A R landfill closure activities and 40 00:03:40,77 --> 00:03:45,56 continued implementation of our strategic plan and of course all of this 41 00:03:45,57 --> 00:03:49,53 contributes to our ongoing efforts towards long term fiscal planning 42 00:03:52,57 --> 00:03:57,74 as in previous years we have these general presentation topics so this is sort of 43 00:03:57,75 --> 00:04:02,09 the grouping that will be going through the evening and it should move forward 44 00:04:02,10 --> 00:04:08,64 pretty quickly and I'll start here by simply Fane this evening we are presenting to 45 00:04:08,65 --> 00:04:09,01 you 46 00:04:09,05 --> 00:04:16,04 a. Balanced budget and we are not anticipating to see an increase of 47 00:04:16,08 --> 00:04:20,30 the waste management fee which is sometimes referred to as the tipping fee the 48 00:04:20,31 --> 00:04:24,52 draft budget is balanced with revenues projected at thirteen million three hundred 49 00:04:24,53 --> 00:04:29,86 ninety six thousand two hundred thirty two dollars. Our expenditures are 50 00:04:29,87 --> 00:04:34,78 anticipated to be thirteen million two hundred five five hundred thirty two dollars 51 00:04:34,79 --> 00:04:35,20 for 52 00:04:35,24 --> 00:04:42,17 a preliminary net income of four hundred forty seven hundred dollars Tyler I'm 53 00:04:42,18 --> 00:04:47,69 going to turn it over to you I think you are going to go over our operating budget 54 00:04:47,70 --> 00:04:53,74 assumptions these are the main items that we use to base the budget on every year. 55 00:04:54,79 --> 00:04:59,75 Most importantly we anticipate seeing seventy two thousand tons of solid waste come 56 00:04:59,76 --> 00:05:05,07 through all of our facilities as well as being hauled direct to landfill by self 57 00:05:05,08 --> 00:05:09,87 haulers this happens most notably with humble sanitation who handles 58 00:05:09,88 --> 00:05:16,72 a lot of their own tonnage that is within the authorities jurisdiction so they pay 59 00:05:16,85 --> 00:05:22,50 the program fees on that tonnage but handle all of the other costs separately. As 60 00:05:22,51 --> 00:05:27,25 compared to our satellite facilities which do pay that satellite rate this is most 61 00:05:27,26 --> 00:05:34,24 specifically for Ferndale and Rio del as well as parts of the county that pay that 62 00:05:34,25 --> 00:05:38,83 similar rate it's slightly lower than ours and as you'll see later that's because 63 00:05:38,84 --> 00:05:44,58 it covers our costs but not the facility costs that are charged by the operators of 64 00:05:44,59 --> 00:05:50,75 those facilities but seventy two thousand tons total is what we're looking at. We 65 00:05:50,79 --> 00:05:55,61 use an estimation of eighty percent for our back haul rate on our solid waste hauls 66 00:05:56,40 --> 00:05:57,92 this is mostly 67 00:05:57,93 --> 00:06:04,93 a tool for us to reduce over budgeting potential in our budget if we 68 00:06:04,94 --> 00:06:06,59 were to go to 69 00:06:06,60 --> 00:06:11,92 a time where we used to use zero percent backhauls we would of course budget for 70 00:06:11,93 --> 00:06:16,59 a much more expensive shipping cost and we don't seem nearly that rate even 71 00:06:16,60 --> 00:06:22,93 a fifty fifty is less and less likely as Bettendorf maintains those solid back haul 72 00:06:22,94 --> 00:06:28,79 rates. So eighty percent is where we said it and of course that will be open to 73 00:06:28,80 --> 00:06:32,91 examination throughout the year and we might revisit that it mean year but it helps 74 00:06:32,92 --> 00:06:38,30 us of course control the budget costs we continue force 75 00:06:42,13 --> 00:06:44,66 hauler that out there 76 00:06:52,32 --> 00:06:58,55 yeah that's the entire idea is the response correct and actually dry creek is 77 00:06:58,56 --> 00:06:59,31 working with 78 00:06:59,32 --> 00:07:05,84 a Bettendorf to optimize those routes as much as possible it's one of the major 79 00:07:05,85 --> 00:07:10,18 benefits of going with Bettendorf and dry creek as 80 00:07:10,19 --> 00:07:16,30 a unified. Group in that changeover from when Solid Waste of Will it's 81 00:07:17,28 --> 00:07:23,40 dropped out on us so it's really helped us move forward and keep costs controlled 82 00:07:23,70 --> 00:07:27,99 we were potentially looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars and it's you know 83 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:28,92 been reduced to about 84 00:07:28,93 --> 00:07:32,84 a fifty thousand dollars change something we haven't really even noticed so they 85 00:07:32,85 --> 00:07:33,19 maintain 86 00:07:33,20 --> 00:07:38,91 a very strong back hall rate by working together and using Bettendorf historical 87 00:07:38,92 --> 00:07:44,83 back haul routes which has always helped us and seem to recall this staff report 88 00:07:45,89 --> 00:07:51,76 by spoke to that 89 00:07:55,56 --> 00:07:59,42 it's less that it's flexible it's that. There's 90 00:07:59,43 --> 00:08:05,88 a little uncertainty right now in the back hall materials that's coming through so 91 00:08:05,89 --> 00:08:08,22 for the moment we're going to leave it about eighty percent because that's what 92 00:08:08,23 --> 00:08:12,25 we've been receiving but we want to let the board know that with some of the 93 00:08:12,26 --> 00:08:17,29 reduction and see backhauls that they're seen for like soil amendment project 94 00:08:17,33 --> 00:08:21,24 products that are coming in that may be something that's coming up on the future 95 00:08:21,28 --> 00:08:24,02 not right now but it's something that we just want to be aware of 96 00:08:31,64 --> 00:08:36,46 it won't affect our transportation rate as it pertains to our contract but we're 97 00:08:36,47 --> 00:08:39,46 getting a credit for those back calls so we might see 98 00:08:39,47 --> 00:08:45,14 a loss in that. And more importantly within the year it will have 99 00:08:45,15 --> 00:08:51,23 a smaller effect unless all backhauls happen to drop out but we don't foresee that 100 00:08:51,24 --> 00:08:52,62 happening so there might be 101 00:08:52,63 --> 00:08:58,23 a small shift in costs but it won't be significant enough to drastically change 102 00:08:58,27 --> 00:09:04,45 what we're looking at even when we get to meet you have course. So we also are 103 00:09:04,46 --> 00:09:08,61 continuing all of our existing programs this includes our hazardous waste facility 104 00:09:09,10 --> 00:09:11,04 our recycling programs C.R.V. 105 00:09:11,05 --> 00:09:16,68 Buyback and any number of other programs we attempt to collect as much revenue as 106 00:09:16,69 --> 00:09:21,87 we can in the strategic plan actually recommends that we work to make programs self 107 00:09:21,91 --> 00:09:26,99 funding however of course one of the challenges with that is that some of these 108 00:09:27,00 --> 00:09:30,10 services are easier to provide at 109 00:09:30,11 --> 00:09:35,69 a lower rate and that is why we're very happy that we can continue them all using 110 00:09:35,71 --> 00:09:40,10 some of the tip fees revenue without impacting to 111 00:09:42,37 --> 00:09:47,96 additionally we have continued rental revenue and anticipated timber harvest 112 00:09:47,98 --> 00:09:51,10 revenue from our New Forest property we've talked about that 113 00:09:51,11 --> 00:09:54,41 a couple of times in other meetings it's going to be approximately one hundred 114 00:09:54,42 --> 00:09:59,97 eighty six thousand dollars over and above the cost to manage the forest property 115 00:09:59,98 --> 00:10:05,95 for the year which we are anticipating to fold into our undesignated reserves for 116 00:10:05,95 --> 00:10:06,93 right now we'll talk about that 117 00:10:06,94 --> 00:10:13,56 a little bit later. And most importantly with the exception of program fees that 118 00:10:13,57 --> 00:10:19,32 are passed through to everyone there is no intice appétit change in fees that means 119 00:10:19,33 --> 00:10:24,29 all gate rates have remained exactly where they're at which helps franchise haulers 120 00:10:24,54 --> 00:10:27,89 because we will keep those rates stable for them and there's 121 00:10:27,90 --> 00:10:32,89 a minor adjustment to folks that haul their own material to landfill However that 122 00:10:32,90 --> 00:10:33,05 is 123 00:10:33,06 --> 00:10:39,31 a small passthrough fee that they can simply apply to the people that they charge and 124 00:10:39,32 --> 00:10:45,96 shouldn't impact things to. Our expenditures we always especially for the draft 125 00:10:45,97 --> 00:10:47,64 assume a two percent C.P.I. 126 00:10:47,69 --> 00:10:50,63 On things of course things are changing 127 00:10:50,64 --> 00:10:54,17 a little bit in this day and age but at the moment we're going to move forward with 128 00:10:54,18 --> 00:11:00,47 that in anticipating the increases in costs. We are floating the idea at this 129 00:11:00,48 --> 00:11:06,47 budget discussion of not charging for residential hazardous waste drop off it 130 00:11:06,48 --> 00:11:11,41 generates approximately thirty five thousand dollars in revenue annually. But we 131 00:11:11,42 --> 00:11:17,60 are looking at promoting residential users to bring in accurate amounts of 132 00:11:17,64 --> 00:11:24,58 material to help stem the tide of significant overruns and the hope 133 00:11:24,59 --> 00:11:29,70 is that if they don't have to pay anything if there is no charge for disposal we 134 00:11:29,71 --> 00:11:35,42 can promote better use of the facility we have course have opened it up for 135 00:11:35,43 --> 00:11:39,78 residents Monday through Friday as well as our first Saturday of vents this helps 136 00:11:40,22 --> 00:11:45,24 control some of the inefficiencies that we see in managing the cash during those 137 00:11:45,25 --> 00:11:48,69 events which should help us move people through the lines 138 00:11:48,70 --> 00:11:51,41 a little bit faster as well and it's just we're at 139 00:11:51,42 --> 00:11:56,04 a really good time in our life where we've really controlled costs and have seen 140 00:11:56,05 --> 00:11:59,78 a decent amount of revenue come in and we can make that call and make sure that 141 00:11:59,79 --> 00:12:05,52 it's working. To make sure that we can actually promote this for our residents and 142 00:12:05,53 --> 00:12:08,53 our rate payers. This is 143 00:12:08,54 --> 00:12:13,16 a big one we are proposing an employee cost of living adjustment of five percent 144 00:12:13,44 --> 00:12:14,13 we'll talk about this 145 00:12:14,14 --> 00:12:18,76 a little bit later but this is in into submission of minimum wage increases over 146 00:12:18,77 --> 00:12:25,09 the next few years at the moment if we keep our regular approximately two percent 147 00:12:25,10 --> 00:12:31,25 increases which have not been as regular in past years we will not meet minimum 148 00:12:31,26 --> 00:12:37,35 wage standards by twenty twenty potentially twenty twenty one so we will have to 149 00:12:37,36 --> 00:12:43,62 raise our minimum wage no matter what at that point so what we're planning to do is 150 00:12:44,17 --> 00:12:47,51 at the very least start the increases and then have 151 00:12:47,52 --> 00:12:54,05 a discussion about what we'll do for the following years to help get those rates up 152 00:12:54,37 --> 00:12:59,73 to the minimum wage and potentially above the authority in the past has been 153 00:12:59,74 --> 00:13:05,63 a fairly competitive employer in that our base where wage was well above minimum 154 00:13:05,64 --> 00:13:09,51 wage but that has changed over time that gap is shrinking and you will see that 155 00:13:09,52 --> 00:13:12,60 a little bit later so we're proposing a workshop 156 00:13:12,80 --> 00:13:15,36 a little bit later in the air which Joe will talk about in 157 00:13:15,40 --> 00:13:18,86 a little bit but for the moment the budget stands with 158 00:13:18,87 --> 00:13:25,03 a five percent cost of living adjustment. Small thing here our help insurance 159 00:13:25,04 --> 00:13:28,89 premium has not been adjusted yet because we usually are in conversation with our 160 00:13:28,90 --> 00:13:32,71 broker to get those numbers currently and of course things are changing 161 00:13:32,75 --> 00:13:37,61 dramatically as they are almost every year these days so we haven't gotten that 162 00:13:37,62 --> 00:13:43,13 number back and that will be reflected in the final budget. And most importantly 163 00:13:43,17 --> 00:13:49,75 facilities master planning is not funded at the moment in this budget there will be 164 00:13:49,76 --> 00:13:54,34 a plan that we are bringing to you in September or October as part of the agreement 165 00:13:54,35 --> 00:13:58,71 with humble beekeeper But at this point we don't have any even preliminary 166 00:13:58,72 --> 00:14:03,04 information on what that facility plan will include so it's premature to include 167 00:14:03,05 --> 00:14:09,88 any costs in the budget itself. Total capital expenditures are eight hundred 168 00:14:09,89 --> 00:14:14,66 ninety five thousand dollars this year most of that is the principal and interest 169 00:14:14,82 --> 00:14:21,73 on our chase loan that we. Acquired in twenty 170 00:14:21,74 --> 00:14:27,29 fifteen. This is the loan that combined all of our old the debt into one month some 171 00:14:27,30 --> 00:14:31,63 payment it will still sunset in two thousand and twenty one but it has drastically 172 00:14:31,64 --> 00:14:33,61 decreased the amount of money that we pay 173 00:14:34,20 --> 00:14:38,01 a year to year and as you can see it's about eight hundred fifty thousand dollars 174 00:14:38,35 --> 00:14:43,95 Other items are minor increases to our capital improvement funds for long term 175 00:14:43,96 --> 00:14:50,37 planning and two items that are proposed for this year's annual budget at the 176 00:14:50,38 --> 00:14:51,37 landfill including 177 00:14:51,38 --> 00:14:56,87 a new monitoring. Piece of equipment that they use fairly regularly and 178 00:14:56,88 --> 00:15:01,87 a new office trailer up there the old one that's up there has been up there for 179 00:15:01,88 --> 00:15:08,67 a long long time and is starting to fall apart. For the 180 00:15:08,68 --> 00:15:13,48 capital improvement plan itself the annual expenditures this next year are three 181 00:15:13,49 --> 00:15:17,92 hundred eighty five thousand dollars the difference between that and the capital 182 00:15:17,93 --> 00:15:19,90 improvement fund itself which we'll talk about 183 00:15:19,91 --> 00:15:25,66 a little bit later are those costs above and beyond the projects that we will spend 184 00:15:25,67 --> 00:15:26,81 this year we have 185 00:15:26,82 --> 00:15:30,48 a couple of pieces of equipment that we are going to be leasing and those annual 186 00:15:30,49 --> 00:15:37,03 payments have been built into the fund to pay for the lease year to year so as not 187 00:15:37,04 --> 00:15:40,89 to impact future fees I will go over that some 188 00:15:40,93 --> 00:15:44,34 a little bit later as you can see the four items here are in tis 189 00:15:44,35 --> 00:15:49,61 a painted to be finished within the fiscal year twenty nine hundred twenty one 190 00:15:49,62 --> 00:15:56,46 thousand budget window. There are three major components to our tip fees 191 00:15:56,50 --> 00:15:57,00 as you'll see in 192 00:15:57,01 --> 00:16:02,44 a moment those are the program fees that we talked about V's are the per ton costs 193 00:16:02,45 --> 00:16:04,37 that anyone pays on 194 00:16:04,38 --> 00:16:08,93 a ton of solid waste regardless of where it's disposed this goes back to those self 195 00:16:08,94 --> 00:16:12,48 haulers who may take their material out of county to 196 00:16:12,49 --> 00:16:16,25 a landfill on their own that can be Anderson that can be up to dry creek on their 197 00:16:16,26 --> 00:16:22,78 own any number of different places those landfills report that back to us and we 198 00:16:22,79 --> 00:16:28,91 follow up with those disposers and either charge them directly or they may already 199 00:16:28,92 --> 00:16:32,91 know in the case of humble sanitation very good example of somebody who has that 200 00:16:32,92 --> 00:16:35,21 already built into their reporting pays us on 201 00:16:35,22 --> 00:16:41,16 a monthly basis for those tonnages And so then there is the Bay State break 202 00:16:42,23 --> 00:16:48,89 I'm sorry. Are are all those 203 00:16:48,90 --> 00:16:53,05 accounts current for the self published most of those count accounts are current 204 00:16:53,30 --> 00:16:58,98 there is at least one current in construction that continues to give us some 205 00:16:59,30 --> 00:17:06,20 trouble but we have been following up with our credit collection agency to 206 00:17:06,21 --> 00:17:12,38 make sure that those past fees are being covered the current fees are occasionally 207 00:17:12,39 --> 00:17:16,36 good and we continue to follow up with them quarter to quarter. 208 00:17:20,52 --> 00:17:25,92 Based to prate is applied to both the fees at the Hawthorns street transfer station 209 00:17:25,93 --> 00:17:29,44 as well as our satellite facilities at home sanitation and recall 210 00:17:29,45 --> 00:17:36,41 a geo river. Rates mostly cover our non solid waste programs 211 00:17:36,84 --> 00:17:41,97 for which there are slightly more expenses than program fees may cover and that of 212 00:17:41,98 --> 00:17:48,33 course is our administrative costs are universal waste and recycling diversion 213 00:17:48,34 --> 00:17:53,95 programs and landfill operations above and beyond our pledge of revenue which is in 214 00:17:53,96 --> 00:17:57,88 the program fees. And then finally there's the facility fee component this is the 215 00:17:57,89 --> 00:18:02,10 component that applies so only to the rates at the Hawthorns street transfer 216 00:18:02,11 --> 00:18:07,14 station and these cover most of our costs for operations as well as our capital 217 00:18:07,15 --> 00:18:11,10 improvements anything that happens at the facility that hasn't been covered in any 218 00:18:11,11 --> 00:18:15,69 of these other rates is collected through us at the gate for any of our customers 219 00:18:15,80 --> 00:18:22,40 franchise and self included and here in very small type you have 220 00:18:22,44 --> 00:18:29,38 our tip fees. Most importantly on that you can see our spread of the seventy two 221 00:18:29,39 --> 00:18:35,63 thousand tons as we anticipated coming in this will be adjusted mean year if 222 00:18:35,64 --> 00:18:41,58 necessary and we watch this year to year to determine how many tons will budget for 223 00:18:41,59 --> 00:18:47,77 overall as you can also seeing that the program fees at the top of twenty four 224 00:18:47,78 --> 00:18:54,03 dollars and eight cents are carried across to all sources of revenue the base fees 225 00:18:54,04 --> 00:18:58,59 of course apply only to each of you may sell fallen franchise rates as well as the 226 00:18:59,18 --> 00:19:01,07 actually it still says E R D But that is a recall 227 00:19:01,08 --> 00:19:06,50 a genial river franchise rates and humble sanitation franchise rates and finally at 228 00:19:06,51 --> 00:19:11,91 the bottom for the most part facility fees apply only to us that small portion that 229 00:19:11,92 --> 00:19:18,54 we. Appropriate to River and humble sanitation is specifically for the 230 00:19:18,55 --> 00:19:23,38 transportation and hauling costs from those facilities no other costs are collected 231 00:19:23,39 --> 00:19:27,69 and that's that orange bar right there to follow along with this if you haven't 232 00:19:27,70 --> 00:19:32,22 found it yet that's page one twenty one or actually I think we're going to be three 233 00:19:32,46 --> 00:19:35,68 of the board back and I'm using an updated packet sorry but. 234 00:19:39,31 --> 00:19:39,68 This is 235 00:19:39,68 --> 00:19:46,52 a brief overview of our piece for the past increases I should say 236 00:19:48,19 --> 00:19:52,64 and I'm looking at here. You bring it back to me I am bringing it back to me and I 237 00:19:52,65 --> 00:19:56,12 was ready to keep going I'd like to turn it back over to Jim from an expert in 238 00:19:56,39 --> 00:20:02,93 conversation so for at least one board member who was here in twenty 239 00:20:02,94 --> 00:20:06,77 fifteen fifteen sixteen we had presented 240 00:20:06,78 --> 00:20:11,96 a multi-year forecast of the authorities finances and we had suggested 241 00:20:11,97 --> 00:20:17,73 a series of steps that we were you know anticipating would better stabilize the 242 00:20:17,74 --> 00:20:23,13 authorities budget and some of those activities included consolidation of certain 243 00:20:23,14 --> 00:20:29,23 job positions we established the capital improvement plan and we put forward the 244 00:20:29,24 --> 00:20:31,69 concept of establishing 245 00:20:31,70 --> 00:20:36,37 a dozen native reserve in addition to restructuring the long term debts and 246 00:20:36,38 --> 00:20:41,09 stronger financial controls and we had anticipated that you know barring any sort 247 00:20:41,10 --> 00:20:47,60 of unforeseen event that these actions would serve to. Enable the authority to 248 00:20:47,61 --> 00:20:51,28 have no waste management fee increase for 249 00:20:51,29 --> 00:20:56,38 a period of three years and that was what our preliminary estimates were at that 250 00:20:56,39 --> 00:21:00,17 time and so it also coincided with 251 00:21:00,18 --> 00:21:06,66 a number of changes that were happening with the hauler franchise acquisitions and 252 00:21:06,67 --> 00:21:11,14 new services that were then being negotiated with some but not all of our member 253 00:21:11,15 --> 00:21:17,80 agencies some of them are ongoing right now and so the cities and the county have 254 00:21:17,84 --> 00:21:23,48 in part been able to negotiate these you know service rates me for expanded 255 00:21:23,49 --> 00:21:28,07 services with minimal impact to the customers in part because our rates have 256 00:21:28,08 --> 00:21:33,46 remained unchanged at zero percent. And you know the proposed budget that we have 257 00:21:33,47 --> 00:21:40,01 for you today is anticipating this third year so I really want to thank Tyler for 258 00:21:40,02 --> 00:21:44,63 you know all of his work and all of our staffs work in terms of trying to rein in 259 00:21:44,64 --> 00:21:48,93 a lot of those expenditures so we could have that long term stability as we've 260 00:21:49,27 --> 00:21:51,39 worked forward with implementation of 261 00:21:51,40 --> 00:21:55,54 a number of the plans so you know we established the doesn't need reserves we are 262 00:21:55,55 --> 00:21:58,99 waiting for the funding to be released from Cal recycle which occurred last year 263 00:21:59,17 --> 00:22:03,79 where that able to fully fund all of those reserves so you know we've been taking 264 00:22:03,80 --> 00:22:10,26 these incremental steps. Restructure to the long term debt essentially reduced our 265 00:22:10,27 --> 00:22:14,84 annual payments between thirty five three hundred fifty to four hundred thousand 266 00:22:14,85 --> 00:22:19,03 dollars annually so we've been able to absorb as those C.P.I. 267 00:22:19,04 --> 00:22:23,57 Is have increased for contracts and we have taken on additional activities we've 268 00:22:23,58 --> 00:22:27,98 been able to absorb it that's how we've been able to accomplish that so it was it 269 00:22:27,99 --> 00:22:28,39 was a bit of 270 00:22:28,40 --> 00:22:33,35 a dark time when we started that because we had so many really large projects 271 00:22:33,36 --> 00:22:37,51 moving forward but you know one thing I just want to highlight for the board today 272 00:22:37,52 --> 00:22:41,84 is that we're here we got here to that third year that we were hoping and so I 273 00:22:41,93 --> 00:22:46,12 really want to acknowledge and thank everybody for all of their part trust from the 274 00:22:46,13 --> 00:22:51,16 board as well as all the activities. That staff has moved forward to make this 275 00:22:51,17 --> 00:22:58,11 happen. So our personal compensation component 276 00:22:58,12 --> 00:22:58,84 we are looking at 277 00:22:58,85 --> 00:23:02,83 a total proposed increase of one hundred thirty six thousand dollars and you can 278 00:23:02,84 --> 00:23:08,06 see with the breakdown here is in terms of those number of items our total employee 279 00:23:08,07 --> 00:23:13,61 and payroll cost make up about eighteen percent of our total budget most 280 00:23:13,62 --> 00:23:14,73 governmental entities use 281 00:23:14,74 --> 00:23:19,13 a rule of thumb of up twenty percent you know kind of what you're looking at for 282 00:23:19,14 --> 00:23:22,35 your payroll cost and that's just sort of 283 00:23:22,36 --> 00:23:29,14 a general rule if. It does represent the cost to fully staff the transfer station 284 00:23:29,15 --> 00:23:34,08 and the Cummings road landfill I do want to remind folks that the transfer station 285 00:23:34,12 --> 00:23:34,96 is a seven day 286 00:23:34,97 --> 00:23:41,94 a week operation and included in the total payroll amount are the salaries 287 00:23:41,95 --> 00:23:48,05 health benefits taxes pension costs and all the other benefits within that payroll 288 00:23:48,06 --> 00:23:54,95 costs for. For the good at that at 289 00:23:54,96 --> 00:23:58,55 that I wore my hair here. The item that might get 290 00:23:58,56 --> 00:24:02,34 a little attention of course is the cost of living adjustment that we are proposing 291 00:24:02,35 --> 00:24:06,86 a five percent and I want to make it very clear that does not include the executive 292 00:24:06,87 --> 00:24:13,80 director this is simply for our. Salary in salary staff 293 00:24:14,62 --> 00:24:15,99 there was 294 00:24:16,00 --> 00:24:22,99 a two percent coal adjustment last year and. Prior to that there had been 295 00:24:23,62 --> 00:24:28,90 the three previous years at no COLA adjustment and this is important in part 296 00:24:29,19 --> 00:24:34,24 because in two thousand and thirteen fourteen state minimum wage was eight dollars 297 00:24:34,25 --> 00:24:41,17 an hour our starting wage for an entry level position was twelve thirty two 298 00:24:42,90 --> 00:24:43,15 that was 299 00:24:43,17 --> 00:24:50,54 a four dollars thirty two son difference. The state minimum wage has been increasing 300 00:24:51,10 --> 00:24:57,45 annually and with the starting wage of four thirty two we were able to ensure that 301 00:24:57,46 --> 00:25:03,21 we had were able to recruit and retain qualified candidates and they were willing 302 00:25:03,22 --> 00:25:09,24 to make that commitment to stay with the authority as the state minimum wage has 303 00:25:09,32 --> 00:25:14,53 increased and our COLA has remained static for several years because we were 304 00:25:14,54 --> 00:25:15,28 wrestling with 305 00:25:15,29 --> 00:25:19,30 a number of very large expenditures landfill closure cleanup of the burned the tip 306 00:25:19,31 --> 00:25:20,54 floor repairs you know we had 307 00:25:20,55 --> 00:25:25,60 a lot of really large items that we were bringing forward as well as our attempts 308 00:25:25,61 --> 00:25:31,32 to you know further stabilize. You know we were we were still pretty competitive 309 00:25:31,33 --> 00:25:37,05 with our ability to recruit However as time is moving forward we're losing that 310 00:25:37,06 --> 00:25:42,87 ability and you can see that here today minimum wage is now eleven dollars we're 311 00:25:42,88 --> 00:25:45,62 paying twelve seventy and it's decreased to 312 00:25:45,63 --> 00:25:51,17 a dollar seventy above minimum wage you know how much how much more staff is it 313 00:25:51,21 --> 00:25:56,45 minimum wage how much of our staff right now we have I believe five. 314 00:25:57,80 --> 00:26:03,79 Five right now and I'll get to that next one so about 315 00:26:04,46 --> 00:26:09,47 because in thirteen percent and it's really it's really hitting us in the entry 316 00:26:09,48 --> 00:26:11,81 level positions and so we're having 317 00:26:11,82 --> 00:26:16,93 a harder time recruiting well qualified candidates some of them make it or don't 318 00:26:16,94 --> 00:26:21,29 make it through the patient period or if another job is opening up and it's less 319 00:26:21,30 --> 00:26:24,35 stress than they move on so we're we're having 320 00:26:24,36 --> 00:26:28,72 a harder time retaining those positions so we're seeing more turnover in what is 321 00:26:28,73 --> 00:26:35,61 essentially our utility worker positions. The question that I have is have you 322 00:26:35,98 --> 00:26:40,36 done any salary surveys comparables in the area to I'm going to I'm going to come 323 00:26:40,37 --> 00:26:40,86 to that just 324 00:26:40,87 --> 00:26:47,50 a moment and so essentially to meet the difference between today's wage and the 325 00:26:47,51 --> 00:26:53,29 twenty twenty minimum wage of fifteen dollars an hour especially for this grade one 326 00:26:53,30 --> 00:26:57,50 step one you know. We're we're looking at 327 00:26:57,51 --> 00:27:02,07 a seventeen percent increase that's what it's going to take in order to get our 328 00:27:02,08 --> 00:27:07,43 entry level positions and then of course the next thing happens which is you can't 329 00:27:07,44 --> 00:27:12,61 simply move it up to fifteen dollars an hour without then encountering salary 330 00:27:12,62 --> 00:27:16,38 compression and that's one of the reasons that what we want to do is introduce this 331 00:27:16,39 --> 00:27:19,84 topic to the board for conversation and then we will come back and have 332 00:27:19,85 --> 00:27:26,54 a more focused conversation on what to different scenarios look like and part of 333 00:27:26,55 --> 00:27:32,25 that is going to include conducting some preliminary salary surveys so we are in 334 00:27:32,26 --> 00:27:36,46 the midst of collecting that information now maybe there are some other options 335 00:27:36,47 --> 00:27:41,60 such as having an entry level position but rather than having 336 00:27:41,61 --> 00:27:46,65 a utility worker an operator tech perhaps the concept of blending them so it's an 337 00:27:46,66 --> 00:27:50,86 operator one operator two very similar to what many of you have in terms of utility 338 00:27:50,87 --> 00:27:55,59 worker one two type positions and then expanding out the number of steps so there 339 00:27:55,60 --> 00:27:57,40 may be some ways to get there but that's 340 00:27:57,41 --> 00:28:02,30 a deeper conversation than work hard to go into the seed name but we want to bring 341 00:28:02,31 --> 00:28:09,09 forward to the board the. You know just the awareness that the state minimum wage 342 00:28:09,13 --> 00:28:15,68 is beginning to land you know towards us and we are seen some of the 343 00:28:15,69 --> 00:28:21,57 impacts in our ability to just have difficulty in recruiting and reach and 344 00:28:21,61 --> 00:28:23,14 retaining employees. 345 00:28:31,91 --> 00:28:36,39 I think you alluded to the fact that if you raise the minimum wage for entry level 346 00:28:36,40 --> 00:28:43,05 people then disparity between. Steps above them he says accordingly 347 00:28:43,46 --> 00:28:50,44 and so. And that 348 00:28:50,45 --> 00:28:56,93 is the reason that we're asking her for the five percent it will help to maintain 349 00:28:56,97 --> 00:29:02,93 that separation so we don't see the immediate salary compression and then we can 350 00:29:02,94 --> 00:29:03,17 take 351 00:29:03,18 --> 00:29:08,34 a look at what those other options are to get the entry level positions. You know 352 00:29:08,35 --> 00:29:13,37 adjusted accordingly because it's not I believe as simple as saying we're just give 353 00:29:13,38 --> 00:29:14,26 everything you know just to 354 00:29:14,27 --> 00:29:17,86 a seventeen percent increase that doesn't make any sense at all but we do need to 355 00:29:17,87 --> 00:29:23,16 find where that balances between meeting minimum wage avoiding salary compression 356 00:29:23,17 --> 00:29:27,34 and also making sure that people who have been you know working for the authority 357 00:29:27,35 --> 00:29:27,58 for 358 00:29:27,59 --> 00:29:32,84 a really long time who had invested the number of years who are making eighteen dollars 359 00:29:32,85 --> 00:29:38,28 an hour having started at the lower level Now overnight the new hires are starting 360 00:29:38,29 --> 00:29:38,83 So there's there's 361 00:29:38,84 --> 00:29:42,90 a there's an employee morale component that comes in and I think that business is 362 00:29:42,91 --> 00:29:46,10 all around the state this is not to be unique to each of you may you know 363 00:29:46,11 --> 00:29:50,75 businesses throughout the state as well as each one of our member entities will be 364 00:29:50,76 --> 00:29:56,87 wrestling with this one also so what I do want to point out here 365 00:29:59,57 --> 00:30:04,30 I started playing around with different charts just to show you what like 366 00:30:04,31 --> 00:30:08,24 a salary compression could look like and it got really messy really quick for 367 00:30:08,25 --> 00:30:09,02 purposes of 368 00:30:09,03 --> 00:30:13,78 a presentation today so we're keeping it super simple entry level utility worker 369 00:30:14,17 --> 00:30:20,92 that blue line represents the. Current salary and that red line 370 00:30:20,93 --> 00:30:26,12 represents the increases to state minimum wage and you see that we're going to be 371 00:30:26,13 --> 00:30:32,35 crossed over where we will not be meeting minimum wage by January of twenty 372 00:30:32,36 --> 00:30:39,36 nineteen so I will note. That again we're not the only one 373 00:30:39,40 --> 00:30:45,89 facing this and I saw last post outpost posting for utility worker one two for the 374 00:30:45,90 --> 00:30:50,32 city every hotel your entry level position starts about thousand dollars 375 00:30:50,33 --> 00:30:52,72 a month more than this one but if you take 376 00:30:52,73 --> 00:30:56,73 a look at your numbers they're not going to meet state minimum wage requirements 377 00:30:56,74 --> 00:31:01,11 either as you start moving it forward so I think you know community services 378 00:31:01,12 --> 00:31:03,78 district they're just starting to wrestle with us and we've had 379 00:31:03,79 --> 00:31:05,46 a conversation there and yes 380 00:31:05,47 --> 00:31:09,48 a different entities are you trying to figure out how to introduce this because it 381 00:31:09,49 --> 00:31:10,24 does represent 382 00:31:10,55 --> 00:31:16,70 a sizable you know impact to each of the the annual budget so you are currently 383 00:31:16,84 --> 00:31:22,09 a you're paying better than we are. And we had 384 00:31:22,10 --> 00:31:26,28 a meeting today where we had some discussion on him and it's not 385 00:31:26,29 --> 00:31:30,07 a really great picture particularly on 386 00:31:30,08 --> 00:31:35,58 a city because of the ability to where you can you increase revenues and 387 00:31:35,59 --> 00:31:40,62 particularly with the thing that's going on across the nation in California and 388 00:31:40,63 --> 00:31:45,31 what county particular with an entire nation is an experienced labor shortage and 389 00:31:45,42 --> 00:31:50,54 in the more skilled you get them on Foresman huge you know all the way through so 390 00:31:51,33 --> 00:31:52,49 even when you're talking about 391 00:31:52,50 --> 00:31:59,33 a utility worker who comes in and just the is rock bottom is coming 392 00:31:59,34 --> 00:32:01,87 up so it's 393 00:32:01,88 --> 00:32:08,31 a challenge for everybody. And again looking for you know qualified people and. 394 00:32:09,86 --> 00:32:14,58 I think sometimes people assume if you're entry level utility worker you know how 395 00:32:14,59 --> 00:32:20,02 hard can it be it's hard work it's physically demanding in our case for folks that 396 00:32:20,03 --> 00:32:25,05 are working within the recycling center it is nonstop you know moving all of the 397 00:32:25,06 --> 00:32:31,65 time and you've got. Pretty intense interactions with the general public who run 398 00:32:31,66 --> 00:32:33,88 the gamut in terms of you know we do have 399 00:32:33,89 --> 00:32:39,25 a number of the the folks who are living on the streets coming in you know with 400 00:32:39,26 --> 00:32:44,26 a variety of issues that they may introduce and they're so we've got the whole 401 00:32:44,27 --> 00:32:48,69 gamut of people and those are the folks that are processing the C.R.-V. 402 00:32:48,70 --> 00:32:55,03 Buybacks every day again the utility workers also work on the tip floor and the 403 00:32:55,07 --> 00:33:01,55 interaction with the public is primarily as they are receiving materials. Hauled in 404 00:33:01,70 --> 00:33:08,46 but then there is the more manual labor component of doing manual diversion so 405 00:33:08,47 --> 00:33:12,03 separating materials and finding ways to recover them 406 00:33:15,46 --> 00:33:15,87 so are 407 00:33:15,88 --> 00:33:21,16 a survey would be looking at other entities are doing the same thing where we would 408 00:33:21,92 --> 00:33:27,95 yeah that's correct they could be Shefflin the dad can react to redistribute. 409 00:33:30,93 --> 00:33:37,20 Fallout That's correct so we're we're initiating you know that step right now 410 00:33:37,33 --> 00:33:41,02 and we want to get an idea of how much information we're able to get into it and 411 00:33:41,03 --> 00:33:46,37 then potentially have somebody just double check that number if you will or there 412 00:33:46,38 --> 00:33:50,21 are some of those results you know is this something that because 413 00:33:50,22 --> 00:33:55,20 a lot of this is public information are you doing is in-house or you know. We would 414 00:33:55,21 --> 00:33:59,90 be doing the preliminary work in-house and we want to see what we're able to pull 415 00:33:59,91 --> 00:34:02,32 together and then we may go ahead and have 416 00:34:02,33 --> 00:34:05,49 a consultant come in to review that information because we could spend 417 00:34:05,50 --> 00:34:09,08 a lot of money real quick on consultants lot of the information with the California 418 00:34:09,09 --> 00:34:13,12 transparency as well as the state controller's office 419 00:34:13,16 --> 00:34:17,70 a lot of information is already available online and so we're you know in the 420 00:34:17,71 --> 00:34:24,65 process of gathering that aggregate information. You we can there's going to be 421 00:34:24,66 --> 00:34:28,46 a number of things we want to just get an opportunity to prepare that work and 422 00:34:28,47 --> 00:34:29,27 bring that back to you in 423 00:34:29,28 --> 00:34:37,18 a workshop format so we can go through all of that not yet you're 424 00:34:37,19 --> 00:34:44,03 on I am on I'm back so I'm going to talk briefly about the 425 00:34:44,04 --> 00:34:50,76 state of the reserves currently. So we have the four 426 00:34:50,80 --> 00:34:54,52 new reserves that have been in operation for about a year now 427 00:34:55,10 --> 00:34:59,61 a couple of years now I should say the operating reserves are the reserves that 428 00:34:59,62 --> 00:35:06,18 we've had for approximately want to say. Seven years or so two thousand and nine 429 00:35:06,22 --> 00:35:10,45 two thousand and nine it was close do you think I know this better. So you know 430 00:35:10,46 --> 00:35:12,37 we've had them established for 431 00:35:12,38 --> 00:35:18,31 a while they were twenty percent of our annual operating budget we did reduce that 432 00:35:18,32 --> 00:35:24,32 to fifteen percent as part of the new reserve policy we have before you 433 00:35:25,30 --> 00:35:30,27 and that sets it currently at about one point two million dollars The biggest 434 00:35:30,31 --> 00:35:35,87 change to that this year is that and as we get through this all pointed out in the 435 00:35:36,31 --> 00:35:41,89 draft budget we have more accurately represented the total C.R.V. 436 00:35:41,93 --> 00:35:48,29 Activity that we see year to year. And that is approximately one point five million 437 00:35:48,30 --> 00:35:53,10 dollars And when you include that cost in your operating fees it's 438 00:35:53,11 --> 00:35:56,88 a pretty big jump over the eight hundred thousand or so that we had been 439 00:35:56,89 --> 00:35:59,98 anticipating year to year before that so it makes 440 00:35:59,99 --> 00:36:05,83 a pretty big jump in what we expect to have in our undesigned undesignated reserves 441 00:36:06,91 --> 00:36:13,71 the right stabilization Reserve is specifically overflow reserve to help keep rates 442 00:36:13,75 --> 00:36:19,80 stabilize that this is for unanticipated changes in hauling costs specifically or 443 00:36:19,81 --> 00:36:26,03 other emergency changes that we cannot anticipate to our regular 444 00:36:26,07 --> 00:36:32,85 hauling costs and other major costs that impact waste management fees if 445 00:36:32,86 --> 00:36:36,80 anything would come up where we would suddenly need to see an increase in fees 446 00:36:37,01 --> 00:36:42,14 perhaps maybe year we would recommend using this first to offset that and coming up 447 00:36:42,15 --> 00:36:42,23 with 448 00:36:42,23 --> 00:36:47,51 a plan for the following year on how to both replenish that reserve and handle the 449 00:36:47,53 --> 00:36:53,33 increase as we unexpectedly were handed it originally. That is still fully funded 450 00:36:53,34 --> 00:36:57,31 and still sitting at four hundred thousand dollars the capital improvement reserve 451 00:36:57,32 --> 00:37:02,90 fund is anticipated to be fully funded to handle all projects for the current year 452 00:37:02,91 --> 00:37:08,42 as well as anything that has been incurred and will be spent in future years this 453 00:37:08,43 --> 00:37:13,21 is specific to two pieces of equipment that we have purchased we are still awaiting 454 00:37:13,22 --> 00:37:15,49 delivery of them its an excavator and 455 00:37:15,50 --> 00:37:21,46 a loader to assist in our solid waste management activities we are leasing those 456 00:37:21,47 --> 00:37:21,69 over 457 00:37:21,70 --> 00:37:27,37 a five year period and the five year costs for those leases are in this capital improvement 458 00:37:27,38 --> 00:37:31,63 fund of so year to year we will pull the monies out of that instead of putting them 459 00:37:31,64 --> 00:37:37,94 into the annual budget and expecting the budget itself to handle those costs the 460 00:37:37,95 --> 00:37:41,54 personnel stabilization reserve of one hundred fifty thousand dollars we actually 461 00:37:41,55 --> 00:37:47,76 did dip into this this last year in anticipation for the hiring of the new director 462 00:37:47,77 --> 00:37:52,97 of environmental health and safety as well as the retirement of our former director 463 00:37:52,98 --> 00:37:53,92 of operations who had 464 00:37:53,93 --> 00:38:00,44 a sizable amount of paid time off to be paid out at the end of his tenure to the 465 00:38:00,45 --> 00:38:06,84 tune of about twenty thousand dollars in costs so we did use that but we do 466 00:38:06,85 --> 00:38:12,54 anticipate putting it all back these four reserves are still per board policy fully 467 00:38:12,55 --> 00:38:17,68 funded through fiscal year two thousand and nineteen will help us accomplish all of 468 00:38:17,69 --> 00:38:24,13 the projects that we hope to accomplish throughout the year. Before I move on to 469 00:38:24,14 --> 00:38:29,10 the next slide which I almost did I am curious if any of you have any questions 470 00:38:29,14 --> 00:38:30,50 about the budget itself. 471 00:38:36,09 --> 00:38:36,31 That is 472 00:38:36,32 --> 00:38:41,10 a nice quiet. And encourage you to point out certainly line fifteen because that 473 00:38:41,11 --> 00:38:46,43 will get some attention I was just about to do something OK So with no questions I 474 00:38:46,44 --> 00:38:51,69 would like to turn to the work sheets themselves starting on page one fifteen and 475 00:38:51,70 --> 00:38:56,10 going through page one twenty one and point out some of the bigger changes that 476 00:38:56,11 --> 00:39:02,57 have happened as I mentioned if you look at line fifteen on page one fifty 477 00:39:04,20 --> 00:39:10,77 . Years are the anticipated revenues for salvage operations 478 00:39:11,37 --> 00:39:17,84 in our recycling operations which is the fourth column over this primarily 479 00:39:17,85 --> 00:39:19,29 includes C.R.V. 480 00:39:19,30 --> 00:39:26,17 Revenues for materials brought in by the public. You will notice 481 00:39:26,21 --> 00:39:32,100 and only most identical cost online fifty on the following page because for every 482 00:39:33,04 --> 00:39:38,85 can that we pay out every can that we bring in and receive money for we pretty much 483 00:39:38,86 --> 00:39:43,01 pay the exact same amount of money out and that is the reason that we've had that 484 00:39:43,02 --> 00:39:49,76 small increase in our undesignated Reserve as well that fifteen percent cost online 485 00:39:49,77 --> 00:39:55,32 fifty has increased. Almost double what it was contributing before this. 486 00:39:57,02 --> 00:40:04,02 Additionally just for example on line ninety two which is on page one nineteen 487 00:40:04,38 --> 00:40:11,22 These are our lease expenses for the year and you'll notice that they've increased 488 00:40:11,26 --> 00:40:15,18 dramatically if you look over at the far side of the difference between the fiscal 489 00:40:15,19 --> 00:40:18,96 year seventeen eighteen budget and fiscal year eight hundred one thousand budget. 490 00:40:20,03 --> 00:40:24,67 This is specifically in relation to those two pieces of equipment and that money is 491 00:40:24,68 --> 00:40:29,37 not impacting tip fees but is in fact coming from the capital improvement fund. 492 00:40:30,65 --> 00:40:31,10 It's 493 00:40:31,35 --> 00:40:36,96 a nice tool that we haven't actually been able to fully recognize using until this 494 00:40:36,97 --> 00:40:43,34 year and that's why you see such an incredible increase in the year to year 495 00:40:43,35 --> 00:40:50,23 comparison but minimal effects on the tipi fact no effect there are 496 00:40:50,24 --> 00:40:54,26 a couple of other small ones our software expenses are increasing on line one 497 00:40:54,27 --> 00:40:59,47 hundred seven as well as our overall training budget on line one zero nine this 498 00:40:59,77 --> 00:41:01,09 represents actually 499 00:41:01,13 --> 00:41:05,77 a bunch of opportunities for us to increase employee training something that we've 500 00:41:05,78 --> 00:41:10,96 been trying to get on top of for years and have had much more success in the past 501 00:41:10,97 --> 00:41:14,98 year to implementing and so we're going to increase the amount of training 502 00:41:14,99 --> 00:41:16,15 opportunities for 503 00:41:16,16 --> 00:41:21,05 a number of our divisions and the software increases are based on hardware 504 00:41:21,06 --> 00:41:23,24 improvements that we are starting to roll out 505 00:41:24,06 --> 00:41:29,89 a lot of our old workstations are really starting to limp along and so we have 506 00:41:29,90 --> 00:41:36,18 a number of planned roll outs to start improving that stock and those are the those 507 00:41:36,19 --> 00:41:41,40 are some of the bigger items that are small in money but big changes year to year 508 00:41:42,10 --> 00:41:43,46 and those are the things we look at 509 00:41:43,79 --> 00:41:49,95 a lot when we discuss some of these changes with them that however and having seen 510 00:41:49,99 --> 00:41:56,01 no questions I am going to turn it over to Jim as we're moving along. 511 00:41:56,64 --> 00:42:01,50 So we are looking for board input and some direction 512 00:42:01,51 --> 00:42:07,16 a couple of specific items that will be Desiree for us to finalize the budget so 513 00:42:07,17 --> 00:42:12,37 that we can present it to you in May one is for an allocation of ten thousand 514 00:42:12,38 --> 00:42:15,66 dollars for the North Coast are in D.C. 515 00:42:16,54 --> 00:42:22,32 That program has now been transferred completely over to the county. That occurred 516 00:42:23,87 --> 00:42:29,15 tactically in October but in reality it's been closer to like January for like 517 00:42:29,16 --> 00:42:32,93 trying to continue teasing out some of the differences and straight means some 518 00:42:32,94 --> 00:42:38,05 things out with cow recycle. So we are looking at you know continued to provide 519 00:42:38,06 --> 00:42:44,95 some base funding and. You know I would encourage the board to continue that as 520 00:42:44,96 --> 00:42:50,87 the economic development. Employees are able to work with your respective 521 00:42:51,44 --> 00:42:58,10 cities and the Community Development. Folks so that we can start figuring out how 522 00:42:58,11 --> 00:43:02,40 to you know build and bolster up some of the activities that the North Coast are in 523 00:43:02,41 --> 00:43:02,76 D.C. 524 00:43:02,77 --> 00:43:09,79 Could be doing the timber harvest just want to just verify that the board 525 00:43:09,83 --> 00:43:15,45 is OK with us taking that net income and placing it into the undoes of native 526 00:43:15,46 --> 00:43:19,43 researchers. With respect to the H. H. W. 527 00:43:19,44 --> 00:43:26,31 The household hazardous waste as Tyler went through we are looking to find ways to 528 00:43:26,32 --> 00:43:31,42 encourage people to do the right thing rather than the wrong thing and specifically 529 00:43:31,97 --> 00:43:34,98 we would like to see that people are bringing their material to us in 530 00:43:34,99 --> 00:43:40,72 a timely manner and not building up lots of volume so legally 531 00:43:41,08 --> 00:43:46,87 residential customers are allowed to transport fifteen gallons of hazardous waste 532 00:43:46,99 --> 00:43:53,72 and bring it to our facility this is not. Conditionally exempt small business 533 00:43:53,73 --> 00:44:00,35 quantity generators this is specific for household hazardous waste. We have been 534 00:44:00,36 --> 00:44:04,45 collecting five dollars for every fifteen gallons and it does come out to about 535 00:44:04,46 --> 00:44:07,83 thirty five thousand dollars. By 536 00:44:07,84 --> 00:44:14,79 a women aiding the fee we are hoping that people will bring in that volume on 537 00:44:14,80 --> 00:44:21,04 more regular intervals if they bring in greater volume of that all out and then we 538 00:44:21,05 --> 00:44:22,46 will charge some seven dollars 539 00:44:22,83 --> 00:44:27,50 a gallon to get rid of the material so we are looking at creating 540 00:44:27,51 --> 00:44:32,38 a financial incentive to be doing the right thing as we are looking at that we are 541 00:44:32,39 --> 00:44:38,44 not proposing to change our rates as it pertains to those small businesses Michael 542 00:44:39,37 --> 00:44:44,91 is the seven dollars for the toll among brought in or beyond the fifty beyond the 543 00:44:44,92 --> 00:44:45,36 fifteen 544 00:44:51,99 --> 00:44:55,16 again we're going to return to you with 545 00:44:55,17 --> 00:44:59,00 a workshop so that we can address your larger strategies to address the statement 546 00:44:59,02 --> 00:45:03,100 of them wage challenges that we apparently will be facing and. 547 00:45:05,47 --> 00:45:12,30 If depending on the direction from the board. You're wanting to see us do more. 548 00:45:13,32 --> 00:45:18,69 We would need to consider adjusting the waste management fee if necessary and we 549 00:45:18,70 --> 00:45:21,71 would return to the board with that I don't know exactly what that would be but we 550 00:45:21,72 --> 00:45:22,52 just put that in there is 551 00:45:22,53 --> 00:45:29,44 a catch all in terms of. If you're wanting us to expand some 552 00:45:29,45 --> 00:45:35,54 of our activities such as to increase the north coast R M D Z funding last year it 553 00:45:35,55 --> 00:45:37,74 was funded at fifteen thousand currently we have 554 00:45:37,75 --> 00:45:43,71 a net income of forty seven hundred so we would be taking 555 00:45:43,72 --> 00:45:47,53 a look at other areas that we could further tighten down or bring back but if we 556 00:45:47,54 --> 00:45:48,33 needed to we would take 557 00:45:48,35 --> 00:45:54,83 a look at that fee increase and that concludes our presentation right now and I 558 00:45:54,84 --> 00:46:01,59 have another question one thing I've noticed is that previously when. We were in my 559 00:46:01,60 --> 00:46:06,94 time since congressional district he would he would have. Even waste drop offs this 560 00:46:06,95 --> 00:46:13,79 is part of his advance and now that. Were injured Huffman's district that those are 561 00:46:13,83 --> 00:46:17,72 a lot less frequent than they were before so I wonder if that is creating some kind 562 00:46:17,73 --> 00:46:17,79 of 563 00:46:17,80 --> 00:46:23,28 a humiliation of. I don't believe that it is we've got pretty competitive drop off 564 00:46:23,53 --> 00:46:27,67 fees in some cases and often cases nothing other side is five cents 565 00:46:27,68 --> 00:46:32,88 a pound most people are becoming more custom to bringing us their material directly 566 00:46:33,91 --> 00:46:39,96 if you know if any of our member 567 00:46:39,97 --> 00:46:45,97 agencies are. If there's if there's an interest or 568 00:46:45,98 --> 00:46:50,04 a need I think we did. Waste Collection of that humbles 569 00:46:50,05 --> 00:46:56,15 a university two years ago I believe. We did an event there because there were 570 00:46:56,16 --> 00:46:58,52 a number of folks at the end of the school year there wanted to get rid of 571 00:46:58,53 --> 00:47:00,04 a lot of electronic devices we did 572 00:47:00,05 --> 00:47:04,48 a collection of bent at that time but we do that in conjunction with our member 573 00:47:04,49 --> 00:47:09,06 agencies and staff if they are aware that there may be some materials whether it's 574 00:47:09,87 --> 00:47:12,45 household hazardous waste or even waste your We're going to hold in 575 00:47:12,46 --> 00:47:16,93 a number of tire waste tire collection of months that will be coming up this summer 576 00:47:17,14 --> 00:47:20,68 so those kinds of activities do go forward and 577 00:47:20,84 --> 00:47:25,49 a lot of it is based on what the anticipated community need will be so if for 578 00:47:25,50 --> 00:47:29,95 instance Congressman Hoffman was interested in sponsoring some sort of event like 579 00:47:29,96 --> 00:47:33,97 that all all his staff would need to do is contact us and we would be happy to work 580 00:47:33,98 --> 00:47:36,09 with them because we love doing those kinds of projects 581 00:47:42,54 --> 00:47:46,59 I do so I believe you'll recall that recall and you have that for you 582 00:47:50,19 --> 00:47:55,61 I think just some of that actually I know when they came down to when they had that 583 00:47:55,62 --> 00:47:58,50 ransom you know we were they would throw all the trucks up 584 00:48:02,62 --> 00:48:09,56 which it was out of Gresham right and I can't speak 585 00:48:09,57 --> 00:48:14,64 to what Rick ology is doing this on that front right now because I haven't I 586 00:48:14,73 --> 00:48:19,49 haven't heard I think if you noticed all these waste is got 587 00:48:19,50 --> 00:48:24,03 a lot lighter Yeah now too I mean the monitors everything is everything is got to 588 00:48:24,04 --> 00:48:25,38 the point where if you want to throw away 589 00:48:25,39 --> 00:48:30,55 a laptop it's going to cost you less than fifty cents Yeah so 590 00:48:32,77 --> 00:48:36,54 that concludes our report so I don't know if you want to provide us any additional 591 00:48:36,55 --> 00:48:41,91 direction or are you comfortable with the steps that we've taken thus far so do 592 00:48:41,92 --> 00:48:46,29 members of the board have any regard to the next steps 593 00:48:54,30 --> 00:48:59,26 and doesn't go to your advisors at your community yeah we are scheduled to hold the 594 00:48:59,27 --> 00:49:03,89 executive advisory committee meeting next Thursday. So would you like 595 00:49:03,90 --> 00:49:06,08 a formal vote to I don't need to have 596 00:49:06,57 --> 00:49:12,46 a vote I would like for you to open up for public comment if there is any and then 597 00:49:12,50 --> 00:49:16,60 if there is anything specific that you would like us to do otherwise we'll go ahead 598 00:49:16,61 --> 00:49:22,04 and continue on this trajectory so we will do that will open this up 599 00:49:24,38 --> 00:49:29,06 . As presented or the next. 600 00:49:35,61 --> 00:49:41,45 I guess the one question to my health medical insurance costs were. 601 00:49:42,62 --> 00:49:47,70 To be determined that is likely to occur and 602 00:49:50,05 --> 00:49:50,95 let's hope we'll have 603 00:49:50,96 --> 00:49:57,36 a better estimate of what we're looking at for changes in May and it will have 604 00:49:57,37 --> 00:49:59,19 minimal impact we actually have 605 00:49:59,20 --> 00:50:04,51 a couple of small changes that most likely will happen to the final budget as 606 00:50:04,52 --> 00:50:10,98 presented but nothing will dramatically change the numbers as they have they're 607 00:50:10,99 --> 00:50:16,15 just fine tuning of some of our indirect costs and this is the same type of thing 608 00:50:16,16 --> 00:50:20,31 we just go back in time never even up slightly so you'll see that number change 609 00:50:20,32 --> 00:50:24,28 that preliminary forty seven hundred will most likely be slightly different but 610 00:50:24,29 --> 00:50:30,37 will not completely drastically change what we preach and will touch on that at the 611 00:50:30,38 --> 00:50:36,74 next then when you were speaking here about the reserve funds and drawing down from 612 00:50:37,62 --> 00:50:43,98 one of those in particular to hire the new position that we created as well as 613 00:50:44,04 --> 00:50:50,57 Brant had and you said all those will be 614 00:50:53,09 --> 00:50:59,63 read replenish the plan and is that like through other income. 615 00:51:01,32 --> 00:51:07,72 That the budget is anticipating that will be there is 616 00:51:07,73 --> 00:51:13,30 a minor item for that it is in the budget spreadsheets itself which is going to 617 00:51:13,31 --> 00:51:18,17 find it real quick it's line one nineteen and that's on page one thousand nine 618 00:51:18,18 --> 00:51:23,54 hundred. And it's the amount of money that the reserves are lacking currently to 619 00:51:23,55 --> 00:51:30,03 replenish them. Some of the benefit that we've had is some of the changes in the 620 00:51:30,04 --> 00:51:35,44 capital improvement fund have either stretched or delayed certain projects by the 621 00:51:35,45 --> 00:51:41,03 nature of for instance the facilities master planning so that window has changed or 622 00:51:41,12 --> 00:51:46,77 completely drop certain items off in terms of we will plan for these as we can 623 00:51:46,78 --> 00:51:51,51 later so the rebalancing of those numbers has helped us have one fund to help 624 00:51:51,52 --> 00:51:53,11 another plus 625 00:51:53,12 --> 00:51:58,12 a small eight thousand dollar amount of money from the tip which we will then put 626 00:51:58,13 --> 00:52:05,04 back into the in general unless something drastically changes from year to year 627 00:52:05,33 --> 00:52:10,68 those expenditures as they happen will have to come from the the next year's budget 628 00:52:10,89 --> 00:52:16,13 that is the anticipated plan. However when we make adjustments to that reserve 629 00:52:16,14 --> 00:52:22,98 policy sometimes that can change it so. So it sounds 630 00:52:23,05 --> 00:52:29,53 like you have support forward to Terry in policy and 631 00:52:33,71 --> 00:52:36,55 their staff for. This. 632 00:52:43,11 --> 00:52:48,75 A lot of brainpower and thank you. 633 00:52:50,07 --> 00:52:55,34 So. I guess the next item on the agenda is board member reporters. 634 00:53:07,90 --> 00:53:12,96 All right we'll take a OK So back to I don't for a Q. 635 00:53:12,96 --> 00:53:19,05 . Can I get 636 00:53:19,06 --> 00:53:24,12 a motion to approve the draft fiscal year twenty eight thousand nine hundred budget 637 00:53:24,29 --> 00:53:26,08 provide direction to staff as 638 00:53:26,09 --> 00:53:31,93 a second option and 639 00:53:31,94 --> 00:53:33,87 a second all in favor say aye. 640 00:53:41,42 --> 00:53:48,07 Members. In the upper come to one of those places or every time I have 641 00:53:48,08 --> 00:53:53,46 a chance to bring this up I'm going to solve since this is just televised it's 642 00:53:53,47 --> 00:53:59,40 televised. The state of California in their infinite wisdom. Chose to paint the 643 00:53:59,41 --> 00:54:04,66 bridge on the Eagle prairie bridge which is between Scotia and rebell the longest 644 00:54:05,10 --> 00:54:05,88 actual highway in 645 00:54:05,89 --> 00:54:10,56 a state of California is as an individual the shortest highway in the state of 646 00:54:10,57 --> 00:54:13,70 California but anyway they the city received about 647 00:54:13,71 --> 00:54:18,61 a week week or possibly two weeks notice that this was going to take place in it 648 00:54:18,69 --> 00:54:22,21 and it closed the bridge on no on March the twelfth and the bridge will remain 649 00:54:22,22 --> 00:54:27,69 closed until October first so that they can paint this bridge and so we had at the 650 00:54:27,70 --> 00:54:32,61 last council meeting we had Caltrans and as an engineer and project manager came 651 00:54:32,86 --> 00:54:38,31 down to kind of touch bases and this was the request of the business owners in 652 00:54:38,32 --> 00:54:43,37 rebel and what it's done to these small businesses two of which have started up one 653 00:54:43,38 --> 00:54:48,82 since January and another one late in two thousand so teen it's devastating you 654 00:54:48,83 --> 00:54:55,20 take the entire summer season and you're limited the people that come in and out of 655 00:54:55,21 --> 00:55:01,88 that corridor through that bridge is because it was enormous to us to the city 656 00:55:02,73 --> 00:55:07,22 and so as we try to investigate this one of the things that just came to that we 657 00:55:07,23 --> 00:55:08,19 got back was there's 658 00:55:08,20 --> 00:55:14,08 a form that the state of California is required to send out to any of the permanent 659 00:55:14,23 --> 00:55:19,37 agencies or locations one of one of which being the city of. City Police Department 660 00:55:19,38 --> 00:55:23,88 and also the county sheriff which they blacked out and replaced with the name of 661 00:55:23,89 --> 00:55:28,95 construction company and so there was never any intention from our perspective and 662 00:55:29,37 --> 00:55:34,12 I have no problem own in the statement there was never any intention of them wanted 663 00:55:34,13 --> 00:55:37,50 to notify the city rebel and the impact it had on 664 00:55:37,51 --> 00:55:42,75 a serious note so. We don't know where that's where this will go or if we can do 665 00:55:42,76 --> 00:55:45,87 anything but it's just a statement of it's it was 666 00:55:45,88 --> 00:55:50,11 a poor discretion you know that they're admitting the failure of communication by 667 00:55:50,12 --> 00:55:54,07 the state of California the two for the impact that it 668 00:56:07,87 --> 00:56:10,41 right so next item on the agenda is the exact. 669 00:56:15,04 --> 00:56:16,19 I want to just highlight 670 00:56:16,43 --> 00:56:21,14 a couple items in particular one has to do with the hot foreign street rehab 671 00:56:21,15 --> 00:56:21,94 project this is 672 00:56:21,95 --> 00:56:28,70 a pretty important one in the sense that for. Twelve fourteen years 673 00:56:28,71 --> 00:56:32,77 Hawthorne Street has been listed as a priority project through H. 674 00:56:32,78 --> 00:56:36,74 Cod for rehab given the importance of our facility as 675 00:56:36,75 --> 00:56:41,96 a regional collection point and of course the numbers are really large trucks some 676 00:56:41,97 --> 00:56:46,61 by trucks and Packer trucks as well as self haul and that street just continually 677 00:56:46,62 --> 00:56:53,54 falls apart we worry anticipating that the project was going to move 678 00:56:53,55 --> 00:56:55,76 forward this summer for 679 00:56:55,77 --> 00:56:59,42 a complete rehab it's also important because of the number of pollutants that are 680 00:56:59,43 --> 00:57:04,87 introduced into our facility in the form of sedimentation which then causes some 681 00:57:04,91 --> 00:57:11,62 real problems for us for our strong water discharge. And we. Were 682 00:57:11,62 --> 00:57:12,42 just notified 683 00:57:12,43 --> 00:57:17,30 a couple of weeks ago that the project has not been funded because the Bay Trail 684 00:57:17,57 --> 00:57:22,14 project was funded instead and so the rehab project of Hawthorne street is not 685 00:57:22,15 --> 00:57:25,90 going to be proceeding I want to make it really clear City of our city of Eureka 686 00:57:25,90 --> 00:57:30,88 staffs they really get our pain they were out there again yesterday trying to do 687 00:57:30,89 --> 00:57:34,50 their best and filling the potholes unfortunately arraigned again pretty good early 688 00:57:34,50 --> 00:57:39,08 this morning and many of those potholes are back they're doing their best they're 689 00:57:39,09 --> 00:57:44,81 doing Band-Aids and that's you know it's it's pretty problematic it's 690 00:57:44,82 --> 00:57:47,100 a lot of wear and tear on our vehicles it's 691 00:57:48,01 --> 00:57:50,38 a lot of wear and tear on the franchise trucks 692 00:57:50,56 --> 00:57:56,32 a lot of wear and tear on customers that are coming in and we don't on the street 693 00:57:56,99 --> 00:57:59,58 and so it's going to be about 694 00:57:59,59 --> 00:58:03,34 a six hundred fifty thousand dollars project the city of Eureka is not able to move 695 00:58:03,35 --> 00:58:07,40 forward on their own let's just say that they are able to find money and put it in 696 00:58:07,41 --> 00:58:11,47 there because they would not be eligible for reimbursement. Juncture we're in 697 00:58:11,48 --> 00:58:12,24 a little bit of 698 00:58:12,25 --> 00:58:19,17 a sticky point so we will meet with their staff and and see if 699 00:58:19,18 --> 00:58:24,22 we can identify some potential other solutions but I do want to let the board know 700 00:58:24,23 --> 00:58:28,30 because we did have some conversations around the fact that Hawthorn Street was 701 00:58:28,31 --> 00:58:34,07 a plan for the rehab project and that is not going to be moving forward not because 702 00:58:34,08 --> 00:58:38,19 of anything the city of Eureka staff is doing or not doing it's simply 703 00:58:38,20 --> 00:58:44,86 a funding mechanism. I want also just to let board members know that the regional 704 00:58:44,87 --> 00:58:50,13 recycling request for proposal was released for circulation on March thirteenth 705 00:58:50,14 --> 00:58:56,05 excuse me and it will be closing on Monday April thirtieth and so we've received 706 00:58:56,64 --> 00:58:58,43 questions and we have provided 707 00:58:58,44 --> 00:59:03,63 a response and the evaluation subcommittee is tentatively scheduled to meet in 708 00:59:03,67 --> 00:59:08,30 early May so that we can begin the evaluation process and bring something to the 709 00:59:08,31 --> 00:59:13,83 board at your June meeting mattress recycling program you'll recall that we were 710 00:59:13,84 --> 00:59:17,86 all pretty excited about the fact that we could reduce the number of trucks that 711 00:59:17,87 --> 00:59:21,86 were going to be on the road by Bally mattresses that does work really well from 712 00:59:21,87 --> 00:59:26,50 our perspective however the processor which is located in the Bay Area is unable to 713 00:59:26,51 --> 00:59:31,49 sufficiently recover the materials once they've been bailed and so there residual 714 00:59:31,50 --> 00:59:35,84 amount that they were having to dispose of to the garbage was too high so they have 715 00:59:35,85 --> 00:59:38,02 asked that we go ahead and simply put 716 00:59:38,03 --> 00:59:42,50 a whole trailers or excuse me whole mattresses into trailers and we will be doing 717 00:59:42,51 --> 00:59:49,23 that we're revamping our our cost. That because we're going to need to 718 00:59:49,58 --> 00:59:54,26 change our reimbursement rates the agreement that we have with California mattress 719 00:59:54,27 --> 00:59:59,33 recycling Council will be up in mid June so we'll be bringing 720 00:59:59,70 --> 01:00:05,03 a new agreement to the board that reflects our new reimbursement rates ideally at 721 01:00:05,04 --> 01:00:08,77 the May meeting possibly at the June meeting so that is moving forward we're 722 01:00:08,78 --> 01:00:12,58 disappointed in the sense that we were able to take what we had anticipated to be 723 01:00:12,59 --> 01:00:17,84 fifty six trucks annually down to nine and now we're looking at you know having 724 01:00:17,85 --> 01:00:24,77 those fifty six so. It's too bad but the technology is just not yet there 725 01:00:25,41 --> 01:00:30,29 when Tyler was giving his presentation. Around some of our assumptions and he 726 01:00:30,30 --> 01:00:33,56 referred to the rental income for the recall A-G. 727 01:00:33,57 --> 01:00:39,18 Property recall and she has been renting nine forty nine Westhoff Orange Street and 728 01:00:39,56 --> 01:00:40,18 we had 729 01:00:40,19 --> 01:00:46,59 a verbal notice in October because they are anticipating. Vacating the 730 01:00:46,60 --> 01:00:51,24 facility and shoon due to. Just 731 01:00:51,51 --> 01:00:58,13 a number of items are associated with planning and doing their own planning for. 732 01:00:59,48 --> 01:01:03,51 The franchise hauling in the acquisition of the small facility and whatnot they're 733 01:01:03,52 --> 01:01:10,45 having to delay. Their. Vacancies so we're looking at 734 01:01:11,04 --> 01:01:16,15 them retaining at least another year in that facility so that does affect some of 735 01:01:16,16 --> 01:01:18,72 our facility planning that we were looking at because we're looking at doing 736 01:01:18,73 --> 01:01:24,22 potentially some expansion so that's going to delay that component and we'll have 737 01:01:24,23 --> 01:01:29,71 some more specific conversations around that in the upcoming couple months. 738 01:01:30,98 --> 01:01:34,77 Humboldt county public health outreach services as 739 01:01:34,78 --> 01:01:40,33 a result of some of the syringe meetings that have been held between the city of 740 01:01:40,34 --> 01:01:47,33 Eureka and the county staff in efforts to reduce syringes that have 741 01:01:47,34 --> 01:01:51,26 been disposed of on the street. I met 742 01:01:51,84 --> 01:01:56,72 a woman who works for Health and Human Services and they do their street outreach 743 01:01:56,73 --> 01:01:57,51 services where they have 744 01:01:57,52 --> 01:02:02,82 a van and they're looking for places where they're able to make points of contact 745 01:02:02,86 --> 01:02:09,46 with this population. And we let them know that 746 01:02:10,19 --> 01:02:15,66 many people come into our facility have very day if they're looking for suitable 747 01:02:15,67 --> 01:02:17,39 locations where they can have 748 01:02:17,43 --> 01:02:22,14 a presence so somebody can come in and knock on that door that van and receive some 749 01:02:22,15 --> 01:02:24,37 services. The parking lots 750 01:02:24,38 --> 01:02:27,97 a really great place to do it so they are going to be placing 751 01:02:27,98 --> 01:02:32,57 a ban on the first and third Friday in the morning of every month and it will be 752 01:02:32,58 --> 01:02:37,84 located actually in the ecology parking lot it's right up against our fence and so 753 01:02:37,85 --> 01:02:42,35 as folks are walking in the have an opportunity to meet some of the outreach 754 01:02:42,83 --> 01:02:47,25 workers there and we're hoping that you know some folks are able to avail to some 755 01:02:47,26 --> 01:02:53,42 of the services that the county has available for them. Do want to thank Nancy she 756 01:02:53,66 --> 01:02:57,96 did an ethics training for the North Coast unified Air Quality Management District 757 01:02:58,33 --> 01:03:02,30 with the hearing board and board members and their staff and our staff had an 758 01:03:02,31 --> 01:03:06,77 opportunity to participate in that training also it's something that I'd like to 759 01:03:08,21 --> 01:03:12,37 see some more of those activities going on so we can bring in some of our rank and 760 01:03:12,38 --> 01:03:13,67 file staff so they have 761 01:03:13,68 --> 01:03:20,41 a better understanding of why we do what we do. So. That for the for the 762 01:03:20,42 --> 01:03:26,17 moment are the big items that I want to bring to the boards attention whore and 763 01:03:26,18 --> 01:03:32,59 street rehab project really is appointment focus at the moment but again I I really 764 01:03:32,60 --> 01:03:38,23 think city of Eureka staff for all their efforts trying to keep the potholes filled 765 01:03:41,95 --> 01:03:47,17 in order questions to the executive director on her reported 766 01:03:49,71 --> 01:03:56,13 questions from the pub right is first the opioid 767 01:03:56,14 --> 01:04:02,15 epidemic. In terms of recruiting and hiring has this been very much of 768 01:04:02,22 --> 01:04:07,20 a problem in failed drug test for people who are applying for positions with you 769 01:04:07,21 --> 01:04:14,07 should be I mean I don't know that it's more or less you know we periodically have 770 01:04:14,08 --> 01:04:20,03 people through their the pre-employment that will come up positive we have not had 771 01:04:20,13 --> 01:04:25,41 to the best of my knowledge any problems with opioids alcohol is 772 01:04:25,45 --> 01:04:31,84 a problem if you're going to put things into substance. 773 01:04:36,09 --> 01:04:41,68 Early applying for positions and and current Temple employees are saying we're just 774 01:04:41,84 --> 01:04:48,56 talking about specifically in new hires. It's more 775 01:04:48,57 --> 01:04:55,45 common to see that people come up positive for cannabis when we run into issues 776 01:04:55,46 --> 01:04:59,24 where we have to discipline or release people for substance abuse it's typically 777 01:04:59,25 --> 01:05:04,83 alcohol that's what we have found 778 01:05:09,57 --> 01:05:15,21 with cannabis still. A reason for we are 779 01:05:15,23 --> 01:05:21,93 a zero tolerance facility we are operating very large pieces of equipment we can do 780 01:05:21,93 --> 01:05:24,43 a lot of damage to the infrastructure we can do 781 01:05:24,43 --> 01:05:29,71 a lot of damage to vehicles we can to an immense amount of damage to the human body 782 01:05:32,71 --> 01:05:39,32 so in spite of it being legal at least doing the work they. Are 783 01:05:39,97 --> 01:05:45,13 Coming coming in under the influence of anything yeah 784 01:05:46,88 --> 01:05:51,33 it took to my mind it is no different than if you have painkiller because your back 785 01:05:51,72 --> 01:05:55,28 is wrong you should not be operating equipment or anything else if you are under 786 01:05:55,29 --> 01:05:57,62 the influence of anything whether it's prescribe or not 787 01:06:07,73 --> 01:06:14,52 it's still important in terms of equipment terms of safety to to the employee and 788 01:06:14,53 --> 01:06:20,84 to others the garbage industry is the number one industry in terms of. 789 01:06:22,77 --> 01:06:29,59 Where people can be maimed or killed we do our best to 790 01:06:30,35 --> 01:06:37,34 minimize those kinds of exposures that is number one every scene 791 01:06:37,35 --> 01:06:43,98 they changes with. Of legalization of recreational in terms of 792 01:06:44,48 --> 01:06:45,68 more and more of 793 01:06:45,69 --> 01:06:58,13 a problem no change no. So 794 01:06:58,63 --> 01:07:05,46 there is no close session so the next item on the agenda is adjournment thank 795 01:07:05,47 --> 01:07:06,76 you and thank you Mr Chair.